‘Weer een dag zonder brief,’ verzucht Kafka in een brief aan Milena Pollak van 7 augustus 1920 – waarmee hij maar duidelijk wilde maken dat er in ieder geval elke dag één brief van haar hoorde te komen. En dat hij er haar minstens één moest schrijven. Liefst meer.Franz Kafka werd in 1883 in Praag geboren en groeide op in de Duitstalige Joodse gemeenschap in die stad. Hij overleed in Kierling, in 1924. Hij schreef veel en graag, aan vrienden (Max Brod), geliefden (Felice, Milena), fa...

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehen-sible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted

as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known work...

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann. Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; a...